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From George Washington to John Washington, 6 March 1775

To John Washington

Mount Vernon Mar. 6th 1775.

Dr Sir,

Mr Fitzhugh deliverd me your favr of the 13th Ulto on Tuesday last—but as I receivd it on the Road, I could not answer it by him & wish it was in my power to do it satisfactorily now1—So far am I from having £200 to lend, that, involvd as I am with one expence and another, particularly in a very heavy charge of seating my Lands over the Alligany Mountains in order to comply with the conditions of the Grant, I would gladly borrow that Sum myself for a few Months; so exceeding difficult do I find it, under the present scarcity of Cash to collect enough to answer this emergency, & at the sametime comply with my other engagements—This information you may rely on as a fact from Dr Sir Yr Most Obedt Servt

Go: Washington

ALS, C-S. The letter is addressed “To Mr Jno. Washington near Leeds in King George.”

1. Mr. Fitzhugh was probably William Fitzhugh of Chatham.

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    From George Washington to John Washington, 6 March 1775
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    Washington, George
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    Washington, John
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    6 March 1775

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    “From George Washington to John Washington, 6 March 1775,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/02-10-02-0218. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Colonial Series, vol. 10, 21 March 1774 – 15 June 1775, ed. W. W. Abbot and Dorothy Twohig. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1995, p. 292.]

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